How to Use growing pains in a Sentence

growing pains

plural noun
  • There were bound to be growing pains, and Payne knows it.
    Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The growing pains appear to have had time to fade into the past.
    al, 14 Feb. 2023
  • There are going to be growing pains — and a lot of them.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • This would not be the last of the young industry’s growing pains.
    Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The emphasis on song craft may have added to the growing pains.
    New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • For Benjamin Behrooz, these growing pains are all part of the long game.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 19 May 2022
  • But throughout the growing pains and the injuries, the Colts managed to learn how to win.
    J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 5 Feb. 2022
  • But with the network’s growth have come growing pains as well.
    Declan Harty, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • This book makes the growing pains a tad smoother to navigate, adding in some LOLs along the way.
    Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe the scams and hacks are just growing pains of a young industry.
    Colin Kirkland, SPIN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The core of last year's outstanding unit is gone and there will be growing pains.
    Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
  • There are a lot of themes that are relatable, like growing pains.
    Eva Recinos, refinery29.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Have there been any other growing pains that have come as a part of this journey?
    Regina Cho, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2022
  • An influx of new faces, and new talent, comes with growing pains.
    Dallas News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Learning how to use a new tool always comes with some growing pains.
    K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Venture to downtown Heber City and the growing pains become clear.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The growing pains for Porter and Green this season were on full display in Sunday's loss.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 8 Jan. 2023
  • There have been some growing pains over the years for the young Fulshear football program, but those days are in the past.
    Josh Criswell, Chron, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Things have been busy at the bakery, and there have been some growing pains in the first year of operation.
    Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Who’ve never been on this stage, doing this type of work, so there are going to be growing pains along the way.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Tran recalls growing pains from when his team would first show up at a new salon in 2015.
    Lexy Lebsack, Allure, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Cuban says these are the growing pains of a bare-bones team trying to serve more than 1.3 million accounts.
    Time, 17 Nov. 2022
  • This book makes going through the growing pains a tad smoother to navigate, adding in some laughter along the way.
    Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 2 June 2022
  • The linebackers can show that this season’s problems were just growing pains.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2022
  • This spring, Erickson had his fair share of growing pains.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
  • This team is talented, but young so there will be some growing pains.
    Mike Perrin | Preps@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The project is therapeutic for Joseph, as he’s used it to embrace his fears and work through growing pains.
    Cydney Lee, Billboard, 17 Feb. 2023
  • As the league heads into its next chapter, there are inevitable growing pains.
    Melanie Anzidei, USA TODAY, 4 June 2022
  • Tatum may have made those kinds of dances look easy in the two Magic Mike movies, but clearly there are growing pains involved.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • But settling into a new school — just as many of the teens are facing the horrors of high school for the first time — isn't without its growing pains.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2022

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